I am a palliative care doctor who has had a unique journey to my specialty. 

My passion for health and healing sprouted from the ground up when I left Tennessee to study organic farming at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. At Evergreen, I discovered a love for science and natural medicine and enrolled at Bastyr University in Seattle. Though life took me in other directions, my experiences at Evergreen and Bastyr crystalized my interest in providing care for the whole person, leading me to become a licensed massage therapist and then an osteopathic doctor.

Driven by a desire for deeper connection with my patients, I completed the OHSU Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship and served as a hospice medical director for a local non-profit hospice for several years before returning to OHSU to provide outpatient palliative care.

After completing training in Internal Medicine at OHSU, I stayed on as a Chief Resident and then a hospitalist. It was here that I witnessed the importance of palliative care in helping support patients and families through these often-difficult experiences.